Foreign News: England

Wc hove odvict'6 by the Great Western up to 23. Tliere was no material change in the cotton or corn niarketn. The sales of cotton for the week ending the 22d wcre 32,040 bale at steady prices. Allí .inicies in the American provisión line, meet a brisk domand, and of cheese and lard the market wns bare. The weather immcdintely after the departure of the Cnindunia was vcry nfavorable for Urn crope. the price of bread sttifTs became higher, end there xvae considerable pxeitement in the corn markets. Before the Great Western sailed, hovvever, the aspect of the markets was changed by the re appearnnce of fine weather, and a higher temperature, bet'.er calculated for the eecuring of the crop--in good condition. On the whole, the neV6 will leave the produce market where it was. Every thincr will depend on the cout nuance of the fair wenther that prevailed when the Great Western left. The duty on foreign wheat einre the sailing of the Celedonia was one 6hilling lower. An English correspondent of the Boston Chronicle writes conceining the 6eesion of parliament : "Fifty-fivc millions of taxes have been voted almoet without remark, nnd they have beeti voted in a manncr that will add ni least ten millions lo the amount. What a great lesBon will have been acquired when nations learn that indirect tnxation is one of the great crimes of governnient against the people. - The tea tax üfibrds a good ïllustration of the working of indirect toxation, and lias historien! aseociations for Aaiencans. The toxution is 2s. 2 l-4d.; say, half a dollar }er pound; but as the merchant and the retailers mus', have a profil on the whole of the capital cmployed, twenty-five or thirty per cent. is odded to the governmenl tax, and we thns have to pav 4s. 6d. per pound for the same com modity retailed with you at Is. 8d. But, as I have eaid, these things get no altention irom our "laborious" legislators. The nppropriations for military purposes havo been very great. The armyj uary, nnd ordnance will cost, for the yeor, fifieen millions. This is n sorrowful fact, and n okes one ekeplical as to the so-called civilizatiou of modern times. The fierce war spirit of French scribblers, and the folly of Prince Joinville, who speculated, in print, upon burning English towns, han afTordcd tbo excuse for the increased activity and large expentfiture m our arsenale,"